Role & capabilities
- Reconnaissance aircraft
- Primary domain
- Air
- System type
- Reconnaissance aircraft
- Developer / manufacturer
- SYPAQ
- Origin / production countries
- Australia
- Other names
- No additional names recorded
- Variants / configurations
- See the named configuration and evidence notes
- Operators / programme customers
- Australian Army — DEF129 procurement; supplier reports deliveries
Evidence & current status
Public sources establish the programme; unspecified capabilities, configurations and inventories are not inferred.
Corvo X is SYPAQ’s small reconnaissance aircraft using a thrust-vectoring vertical-take-off configuration. It is a different system from the company’s expendable PPDS logistics aircraft. The supplier emphasises portability, observation payloads and a communications architecture suited to small military units. The public overview does not provide a full, versioned numeric performance table.
SYPAQ announced a contract under the Australian Army’s DEF129 programme in July 2024. The agreement included a multi-year support arrangement as well as aircraft production. In April 2025, the company stated that deliveries into DEF129 were under way and announced an intention to make Corvo X available to export customers in 2026.
That sequence gives the programme stronger evidence than a concept illustration, but an export-readiness announcement is not a list of completed foreign sales. Nor does a delivery statement establish fleet-wide operational capability or the configuration of every aircraft. The catalogue consequently records the Australian procurement and supplier-reported delivery milestones, while leaving unverified endurance, mass and customer totals unfilled. General family claims are not substituted for aircraft-specific acceptance or test results.
Sourced specifications
Figures apply to the named configuration. Maximum values are not guaranteed operating performance.
| Specification | Reported value | Context & source |
|---|---|---|
| Airframe | Small portable VTOL reconnaissance aircraft | Supplier description; full numeric baseline not disclosed. Source |
| Launch / recovery | Thrust-vectoring VTOL | Manufacturer-described configuration. Source |
| Propulsion | Not established from the reviewed public sources. | Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted. Source |
| Dimensions | Not established from the reviewed public sources. | Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted. Source |
| Mass | Not established from the reviewed public sources. | Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted. Source |
| Endurance | Not established from the reviewed public sources. | Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted. Source |
| Range | Not established from the reviewed public sources. | Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted. Source |
| Speed | Not established from the reviewed public sources. | Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted. Source |
| Altitude | Not established from the reviewed public sources. | Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted. Source |
| Payload | Not established from the reviewed public sources. | Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted. Source |
| Sensors | Not established from the reviewed public sources. | Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted. Source |
| Communications / navigation | Mesh-radio communications and autonomous flight functions | Specific delivered configurations not separately established. Source |
Documented milestones
Deliveries reported
SYPAQ described delivery into DEF129 and planned export availability in 2026.
Read the announcementAustralian Army contract
SYPAQ announced Corvo X selection under DEF129.
Read the announcement
Publication history
- — Added a sourced global catalogue profile with configuration-specific data and explicit evidence limits.
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